Natore is a city ("town" in some sources) in western Bangladesh. It is the headquarters of the

Natore District Natore district () is a district in Rajshahi Division located in northern Bangladesh. It borders the metropolitan city of Rajshahi and used to be a part of Rajshahi District. History Natore was the district headquarters of Rajshahi from 1769 to ...

. Its current administrator is Asha Khatun. The Narod river is passing through the center of the city with pollution from upstream industrial developments flowing through.S.M. Nur-E-Alam, S.M. Moniruzzaman, S.M.A. Bate
Characterization of selected industrial effluent and their effects on Narod river of Natore, Bangladesh
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Civil Engineering for Sustainable Development (ICCESD 2016), 12~14 February 2016, KUET, Khulna, Bangladesh (2016)

Demographics

According to the 2022 Bangladesh census, Natore city had a population of 87,067 and a literacy rate of 87.02%. According to the

2011 Bangladesh census In 2011, the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics conducted a national census in Bangladesh, which provided a provisional estimate of the total population of the country as 142,319,000. The previous decennial census was the 2001 census. Data were reco ...

, Natore city had 18,828 households and a population of 81,203. 13,104 (16.14%) were under 10 years of age. Natore had a literacy rate (age 7 and over) of 75.06%, compared to the national average of 51.8%, and a sex ratio of 968 females per 1000 males.

References

Natore District Cities in Bangladesh Populated places in Rajshahi Division {{Rajshahi-geo-stub